Comcast's Tunerfish adds social media check-ins to your TV watching

Comcast's Plaxo acquisition has borne fruit beyond its social media address book roots with Tunerfish, aimed at pulling social networking features and TV into one website. Currently in closed alpha, it lets TV watchers note what they're watching and share with others, Foursquare style. No word on what being "mayor" of Chuck gets you (if it's not a discount at Subway we'll be disappointed) but the idea is to be able to keep an eye on what's trending amongst the larger pool of viewers or just your friends (who, presumably, have similar tastes. Of course there's Facebook and Twitter integration, and an iPhone app will be available when the beta launches in the next few weeks. Notably absent at this time is any Comcast branding, so it should be wide open no matter where you get your TV broadcasts from, but given the company's interests in bringing together internet and TV we wouldn't be surprised to see some Xfinity labeling work its way in sooner or later. Check out an epic 35-minute video interview with Robert Scoble (embedded after the break, demo starts about 10 minutes in) for more info, or just go ahead and sign up for the latest updates on the official site. It's like we always say -- if your followers & friends didn't want to know what you were doing every second of every day, then why did they add you in the first place?

[ssgadget Posted May 24th 2010 8:17PM]

I don't want my PPV Pr0n shared on Facebook or Twitter :P

[bravokiloromeo Posted May 24th 2010 8:30PM]

It's hard to tell me and all of my friends what we're all watching because the connection you're giving us sucks.

[bighap Posted May 24th 2010 8:36PM]

Great! An even easier way for me to feel important by telling the world what I am watching.

[Nod Flenders Posted May 24th 2010 8:43PM]

╝╝╝UPDATE╝╝╝
Nod Flenders watched "Backdoor Sluts 9" from 2:15 a.m. to 2:17 a.m.

do not want friends and family to know that...

[bighap Posted May 24th 2010 9:04PM]

@Nod Flenders

Hope you can last longer than that during the real deal.

[Nod Flenders Posted May 24th 2010 9:11PM]

@bighap Me too

[Cheesus Crust Posted May 24th 2010 9:23PM]

@Nod Flenders Me too man, it only lasts like 40 secs.

[DoctarPeppar Posted May 24th 2010 8:47PM]

I've been so lonely girl, I've been so sad and down
Couldn't understand why haters joked around
I wanted to be free with other creatures like me
And now I got my wish, cause I know that I'm a gay fish

[LANjackal Posted May 24th 2010 8:49PM]

I like the idea, I'm already a part of Comcast's IPv6 trial. How do I sign up for this?

[A Work Of Orange Clocks Posted May 24th 2010 8:49PM]

Epic is definitely the word when you're describing the length of this video.

[Josh S Posted May 24th 2010 8:52PM]

I'm not sure I want any of Comcast's tunerfish, they probably throttled it to death...

[FitFan Posted May 24th 2010 8:57PM]

Link you TV viewing habits to Facebook so they'll have more data to sell the next time they make a "mistake" with their privacy settings.

[clubside Posted May 24th 2010 10:49PM]

I wonder how this compares to Miso (http://gomiso.com) which offers the same thing, badges, location and non-TV check-ins (DVDs, movies at the theater). I think it's still iPhone exclusive (I've complained that checking-in at home makes more sense from any browser rather than a phone app) and lacks the major under-pinning this type of service needs (micro-blogging comments while watching, optional transcribed group chat for people checked in to the same event). The one thing I can see Comcast doing right is marking the relevant episode for better segmented discussion, but that's about it.

[dardub Posted May 25th 2010 1:55AM]

Tunerfish, that's how they say tunafish in long island.

[Sweet Dude Posted May 25th 2010 8:44AM]

Still waiting on Remote DVR to make it out to my area.

[sporkinum Posted May 25th 2010 9:54AM]

You can tune a piano, but you can't tunerfish.

[glennS Posted May 25th 2010 2:42PM]

@sporkinum

Beat me to it. Damn you.

[Sonic Death Monkey Posted May 25th 2010 6:46PM]

You mean Xfinity branding.